Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday

We watched Star Wars. Decklin has been playing this on the Wii and really wanted to see this movie.

Bry went golfing.

We ordered Chinese as a late night snack.

We tidied the house.

Kids played with Bry, board games, Wii games, etc.

We baked chocolate chip cookies.

I know there was more but my mind is drawing a blank right now.

Bry picked my brother up from the airport late at night.

Monday:

Bry took Skylar for her blood draw. She wasn't feeling well after so she came home and put on her PJ's and lounged on my bed while Summer took a bath in the master bathroom.

Skylar read on the sofa in her PJ's for awhile and tried to take a nap.

Summer and I made lunch platters.

Bry took Decklin out to the mall with him and to run some errands.

I played some Wii games with the kids.

We pulled the Christmas decorations from the garage and grabbed the tree.

We put up the Christmas tree and then the kids decorated it on their own (with Bry and I in the room listening to music and chatting with them).

Skylar and Bry went to church. He said it was an amazing service. They told us all about it when they came home. They've been doing a series on Monsters and this last monster in the series was Cookie Monster. Our Pastor talked about being so into God, like Cookie Monster is with his cookies. Bry was pretty moved by the service. I look forward to listening to the podcast this evening.

Skylar finished up reading about The Great Depression and a story about life on the Titanic.

Tuesday

We cleaned the house. Did pet care, ate meals, this is our usual so I don't always jot that down in our days here on the blog.

Decklin, Ember and I worked on de-breeding the garage.

Decklin road his scooter and bike.

Ember played with Playdough.

All the kids played zoo.

Skylar used her new friendship bracelet loom. That was hard to figure out so we had to watch a video we found online to figure it out.

Skylar told us what she read about the Great Depression. And I shared about my Grandfather living through it.

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***DISCLAIMER***Any posts about "curriculum" are all from before we came to unschooling.

Our school days look just like a day of summer vacation, a day of living life joyfully as a family.

What you won't find in our house:

No parent mandated chores - instead chores that kids agree to do as part of the household. No punishments. - instead we talk and discuss. No "school work" really of any kind. No curriculum. No clear your plate club at meal time. - Our kids really have great on off switches for when their hungry and when they are not. No parents make the rules kids follow kind of thing. - We as parents are not perfect people and we discuss with the kids. We are not infallible and are always open to discussion. No set schedule of when my kids can do what unless it's about sleeping and then they do have to be considerate of anyone asleep of course. No food controls. No limits on when they can game, watch TV or use the internet.

What you will find:Lots of learning all the time. Tons of consideration, kindness and empathy from kids to parents and parents to kids. Respectful kids. Respectful parents. Lots of laughter and fun. Prayers (we are quite a prayerful bunch)Lots of music. A helpful attitude. Love.

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"The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you."

Unschooling blogs I recommend

"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." --John Holt

"Little children love the world. That is why they are so good at learning about it. For it is love, not tricks and techniques of thought, that lies at the heart of all true learning. Can we bring ourselves to let children learn and grow through that love?"

--John Holt

A quote by Sandra Dodd

ANY mention of unschooling in the presence of school-at-homers is taken as criticism, and that will be true forever.To suggest, in the presence of people who are making their children do schoolwork, that schoolwork is a) not necessary and b) harmful is considered (by them) to be somewhere between storming their house from above, and undermining it from below.

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